And Another Reason To Hate Facebook......
Tracking algorithms, unwanted facial recognition, selling your information, oh, and that little thing about helping the Russians target American voters with fake news stories-along with all the other weird human behavior Facebook encourages (excuse me a second whilst I post this picture of the epic toast I had for breakfast). As if that isn't enough to prove that Facebook is an element of the end of civilized society, we now find that they will allow anyone to target any group with advertising, as long as you pay....Jew haters? How to burn the Jews? History of why the Jews ruin the world? Yes, that's my target audience. The fact that Facebook allows people to identify themselves with these characteristics and interests in order for them to BE targeted speaks volumes.
Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook’s self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you.
Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world’s largest social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of “Jew hater,” “How to burn jews,” or, “History of ‘why jews ruin the world.’”
To test if these ad categories were real, we paid $30 to target those groups with three “promoted posts” — in which a ProPublica article or post was displayed in their news feeds. Facebook approved all three ads within 15 minutes.
After we contacted Facebook, it removed the anti-Semitic categories — which were created by an algorithm rather than by people — and said it would explore ways to fix the problem, such as limiting the number of categories available or scrutinizing them before they are displayed to buyers.
“There are times where content is surfaced on our platform that violates our standards,” said Rob Leathern, product management director at Facebook. “In this case, we’ve removed the associated targeting fields in question. We know we have more work to do, so we’re also building new guardrails in our product and review processes to prevent other issues like this from happening in the future.”
Facebook’s advertising has become a focus of national attention since it disclosed last week that it had discovered $100,000 worth of ads placed during the 2016 presidential election season by “inauthentic” accounts that appeared to be affiliated with Russia.
Read the rest here: https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertisers-to-reach-jew-haters
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Your audience selection is great! That's a nice touch. Potential audience size 108,000 people. Who are these people?
It took Facebook’s system just one minute to give the green light to an ad targeting these options:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/09/14/facebook_let_advertisers_target_jew_haters_it_doesn_t_end_there.html
Facebook’s Offensive Ad Targeting Options Go Far Beyond “Jew Haters”
By Will Oremus and Bill Carey
Sept. 14 2017 6:33 PM
to boycott Facebook! 
Seriously, I suppose these people exist, Facebook or not. It's the analysis, and the parsing of data, and the collection of information and the use of that information that alters everything. Our pluralistic democratic system needs to adjust to these capabilities and to come to grips with the "low information" behaviors of the majority of our society.
Well never saw much use in catching up or staying in touch with people i didn't need in my life anymore.
I never signed up on Facebook 
You should stay away from Facebook. God only knows what kind of targeted stuff your profile would attract!
